"The Lotus Sutra is the truth of all truths taught by the Buddha, for it includes his declaration of “honestly discarding expedient means." -- Nichiren Daishonin
"Since the Lotus Sutra teaches, "If there are living beings who do not believe or accepted, you should use some of the other profound doctrines of the Thus Come One to teach, benefit and bring joy to them", the provisional teachings of the Buddha need not be discarded." Reverend Ryusho "Shonin"
Not understanding the Time, Rev. Ryusho brings misery upon his followers. Here, Chapter 22 ["In future ages"] means the Former and Middle Days, not the Latter Day.
"The meaning of these various passages is that, whether one speaks of it as the fifth five-hundred-year period following Shakyamuni Buddha’s passing, or calls it the future age, or the defiled and evil age, it is apparent that at the present time, when the two thousand years of the Former and Middle Days of the Law have ended and we are more than two hundred years into the Latter Day, only the Lotus Sutra should be propagated. The reason for this is that in this age the people’s minds have become twisted, and the teachings produce no actual effect. The Buddhas and gods no longer manifest their awesome powers, and prayers for this life and for future existences go unanswered. At such a time the heavenly devil, or Papiyas, will take advantage of the situation and come rampaging, and the nation will be troubled by constant famine and drought. Disease and plague will rage everywhere, and we will suffer the disasters of foreign invasion and internal strife, our nation being constantly at war within, and later assaulted by invading warriors from another country. In such an age of conflict, when the pure Law of the other sutras ceases to be effective, the wonderfully efficacious medicine of the Lotus Sutra will provide the cure for all these grave disasters." -- Nichiren
ReplyDelete"Only" the Lotus Sutra!!!
ReplyDeletevery good.
ReplyDeleteWho is Reverend Ryusho Shonin?
ReplyDeleteHe is a Nichiren Shu priest.
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